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John  E.  Clough 


MISSIONARY  TO  THE 
TELUGUS  OF  SOUTH  INDIA 

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A  SKETCH 

by 

Emma  Rauschenbusch  Clough,  Ph.D. 


BOSTON,  U.S.A. 

American  Baptist  Missionary  Union 

NINETEEN  HUNDRED  and  TWO 


COPYRIGHT,  1902 


Emma  Rauschenbusch  Clough 


ARRANGED  and  PRINTED  FOR  THE 
AMERICAN  BAPTIST  MISSIONARY  UNION 
by  the  SOUTHGATE  DEPARTMENT  of 
THE  STILLINGS  PRESS,  BOSTON,  U.S.A. 


A  SKETCH  OF 

JOHN  E.  CLOUGH 

Missionary  to  the  Telugus  of  South  India 


QN  1836  the  first  Baptist 
missionary  was  sent  to 
the  Telugus  of  southern 
India,  and  in  that  same 
year,  July  16,  a  boy  was 
born  near  Frewsburg,  in 


Chautauqua  County,  N.Y.,  who  went  out 
twenty-eight  years  later  to  give  his  life  to 
the  work  of  that  mission.  John  Everett 
Clough  was  to  render  special  service  and 
God  prepared  him  for  it.  At  the  very 
outset  he  was  given  by  inheritance  the  in¬ 
stincts  of  the  pioneer.  To  settle  in  a  new 
country  and  to  go  forward  in  the  face  of 
obstacles,  came  to  him  naturally.  One 
grandfather  served  seven  years  under 
Washington,  including  the  winter  at  Val¬ 
ley  Forge;  the  other  grandfather,  about 


the  year  1790,  cut  his  way  four  miles 
through  the  forests  of  Pennsylvania  and 
bought  the  site  of  what  is  now  the  village 
of  Fairview.  Of  Welsh-Puritan  descent 
on  his  father’s  side,  of  Scotch-English 
descent  on  his  mother’s,  a  typical  Yankee, 
he  inherited  the  practical  ability  of  his 
race,  mingled  with  Puritan  faith  and  Scotch 
piety  —  a  goodly  heritage. 

His  father  was  wealthy  when  the  son  was 
born,  but  by  a  deed  of  friendship  he  lost 
his  property  at  a  stroke,  and  the  son  grew 
up  in  the  hard  but  clean  poverty  of  a  rudi¬ 
mentary  civilization  in  the  new  states  of 
Illinois  and  Iowa.  Where  the  Indian  had 
recently  left  a  government  reservation  to 
withdraw  to  tracts  still  more  remote,  the 
Cloughs  staked  off  1,600  acres  of  wild 
prairie  land  in  northern  Iowa  and  held  it 
with  squatter  sovereignty  until  they  had 
paid  the  government  for  the  whole  claim. 
Civilization  came  to  them;  the  village  of 


A  SKETCH  OF  JOHN  E  .  CLOUGH 


Strawberry  Point  grew  on  the  borders  of 
their  farm;  thrift  prevailed  and  in  1853 
the  family,  consisting  of  live  sons  and  two 
daughters,  had  prosperity  on  their  side. 
But  meantime  the  future  missionary  had 
learned  the  meaning  of  poverty.  Many  a 
time  he  has  said  to  the  destitute  Pariah  in 
India  who  complained  to  him  that  he  had 
nothing  but  porridge  to  eat:  “You  cannot 
tell  me  anything  about  poverty.  I  too 
have  lived  by  the  week  on  little  else  than 
corn  meal  mush.”  And  the  Pariah  knew 
that  he  was  understood. 

When  he  was  seventeen  years  old  young 
Clough  was  invited  by  a  party  of  United 
States  surveyors  to  go  with  them  as  chain 
and  hatchet  carrier  into  southern  Minne¬ 
sota.  He  went  and,  with  his  quick  per¬ 
ception  of  what  was  wanted,  used  the 
following  winter  vacation  for  the  study 
of  surveying,  algebra  and  trigonometry. 
When  spring  came  and  the  surveying 


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party  again  started  out,  the  compass  was 
put  into  his  hands.  The  third  and  fourth 
years  he  was  sworn  in  as  United  States 
Deputy  Surveyor  and  sent  by  his  chief, 
with  a  party  of  fifteen  men  under  him,  to 
complete  a  contract  for  the  government. 
Not  yet  twenty  years  old,  he  went  with 
his  men  over  the  wild  prairies  of  Minne¬ 
sota  in  the  days  when  Minneapolis  was  a 
mere  village.  Courage  and  self-reliance 
grew  apace  up  there  in  God’s  broad  coun¬ 
try,  for  God  wanted  a  man  for  His  work 
in  India  whose  methods  would  have  the 
element  of  fearlessness  in  them,  lest  he  be 
afraid  of  a  mass  movement  toward  Chris¬ 
tianity.  His  certificate  as  United  States 
Deputy  Surveyor  was  respected  by  the 
Indian  Government  when  he  applied  for 
engineering  contracts  in  behalf  of  thou¬ 
sands  in  the  days  of  famine. 

With  money  enough  invested  for  a  five 
years’  course  of  study,  he  asked  his  sur- 


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veying  chief  in  the  fall  of  1857  for  the  best 
school  in  Iowa,  for  he  wanted  to  be  one 
of  the  wealthiest  lawyers  in  the  State  by 
the  time  he  was  forty.  He  was  directed 
to  the  Burlington  College  and  here  he 
became  poor  in  spirit,  and  the  crisis  of 
1858  made  him  poor  in  pocket.  His 
ambitious  plans  were  forgotten,  and  as  a 
humble  follower  of  Jesus  he  went  out,  a 
Baptist  missionary,  to  that  forlorn  hope — - 
the  Telugu  mission.  Until  he  went  to 
Burlington,  religious  influences  had  been 
strangely  lacking  in  his  life.  There  was 
no  family  altar  in  his  home,  no  Sunday 
school  for  him  out  on  the  prairies  of 
Illinois  and  Iowa,  no  church  in  the  wilds 
of  Minnesota.  But  at  Burlington  he 
found  professors  and  students  who  were 
earnest  Christians.  His  room-mate,  A. 
D.  McMichael,  announced  at  the  outset 
his  intention  of  reading  the  Bible  and 
praying  before  retiring  at  night.  Clough 


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said,  “  I  guess  I  can  stand  it  if  you  can.” 
At  first  he  continued  his  studies  while 
McMichael  prayed ;  then  he  closed  his 
book  and  listened,  for  his  room-mate  was 
praying  for  him.  When  finally  he  too 
knelt,  McMichael  went  to  Dr.  G.  J. 
Johnson  and  said,  “I  think  Clough  is  not 
far  from  the  Kingdom  ;  he  kneels  with  me 
in  prayer.”  Half  an  hour  later  his  pastor 
knocked  at  his  door  and  found  him  over 
his  own  Bible  anxious  to  know  the  way. 
With  the  prompt  decision  which  has  been 
one  of  his  marked  characteristics  all  through 
life,  he  took  for  himself  the  salvation 
which  is  in  Christ  Jesus  and  was  baptized 
February  n,  1858. 

During  the  same  year  Dr.  S.  M.  Osgood, 
a  returned  missionary  from  Burma,  came 
to  Burlington  and  after  a  public  appeal  for 
workers,  visited  Mr.  Clough  in  his  room. 
The  latter  kept  it  to  himself,  but  in  mind 
he  henceforth  felt  committed  to  become 


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A  SKETCH  OF  JOHN  E  ,  CLOUGH 


a  missionary.  On  account  of  the  Civil 
War,  Burlington  College  was  practically 
closed  for  a  time.  Mr.  Clough  there¬ 
fore  graduated  at  the  Upper  Iowa  Uni¬ 
versity.  In  1862  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Harriet  Sunderland.  For  a  year  they 
together  taught  the  graded  public  school 
at  Colesburg,  Iowa,  but  his  heart  was 
set  on  other  work.  He  became  colporter 
in  eastern  Iowa  under  the  American  Bap¬ 
tist  Publication  Society,  and  for  a  year 
was  zealous  in  the  house-to-house  visiting 
which  proved  to  be  excellent  training  for 
later  village  itineracy  in  India.  Then 
came  the  call  to  go  with  the  Rev.  Lyman 
Jewett  to  work  among  the  seventeen 
millions  of  Telugus  in  southern  India. 
With  wife  and  son,  one  and  a  half  years 
old,  he  sailed  in  1864,  going  around  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope. 

The  mission  to  which  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Clough  were  appointed  had  come  to  be 


A  SKETCH  OF  JOHN  E  *  CLOUGH 

known  as  the  cc  Lone  Star  Mission,” 
because  with  its  one  station  at  Nellore  it 
was  a  “  Lone  Star  ”  in  the  firmament  of 
missions.  There  were  thirty  years  of 
almost  fruitless  toil.  Twice  the  Com¬ 
mittee  in  Boston  talked  of  giving  up  this 
barren  field.  But  the  pioneers  of  the 
mission,  Day  and  Jewett  and  their  wives 
held  on.  They  labored  and  they  prayed. 
They  prophesied,  “  God  has  a  great 
people  among  the  Telugus.”  While  the 
missionary  for  Ongole  was  yet  a  surveyor 
on  the  prairies  of  Minnesota,  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Jewett  and  three  of  their  native 
helpers  knelt  one  morning  at  sunrise  on  a 
hill  overlooking  Ongole,  and  prayed  for  a 
man  to  bring  the  gospel  to  this  dark  place 
where  few  as  yet  had  ever  heard  the  name 
of  Christ.  Twelve  years  later  the  man 
for  Ongole  began  his  work,  and  in  the 
sight  of  “  Prayer  Meeting  Hill  ”  thousands 
were  baptized  in  the  years  that  followed. 


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It  was  not  a  matter  of  mere  chance  that 
the  Ongole  Mission  became  a  Pariah  mis¬ 
sion.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clough  passed  a 
crucial  test  at  the  very  outset  and  probably 
that  whole  mass  movement  hung  in  the 
balance.  They  had  friends  among  the 
Brahmins  whom  they  hoped  to  win  for 
Christ.  But  one  day  when  a  company  of 
Madigas  came  and  asked  for  baptism  the 
Brahmins  intimated  that  if  these  were 
received,  they  must  withdraw.  In  their 
perplexity  each  opened  his  Bible  at  random 
and  the  eyes  of  both  fell  on  the  verse: 
“For  ye  see  your  calling,  brethren,  how 
that  not  many  wise  men  after  the  flesh, 
not  many  mighty,  not  many  noble  are 
called ;  but  God  hath  choosen  the  foolish 
things  of  the  world  to  confound  the  wise.” 
i  Cor.  1,26-27.  They  sought  each  other 
and  showed  each  other  their  open  Bibles. 
They  feared  to  turn  away  those  Madigas, 
lest  they  turn  away  the  Christ.  The 


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Pariahs  were  baptized  and  the  Brahmins 
withdrew.  The  die  was  cast.  H  ence- 
forth  it  was  true  of  the  Ongole  Mission, 
“To  the  poor  the  gospel  is  preached.” 
The  first  ten  years  at  Ongole,  a  town  of 
about  10,000  inhabitants,  180  miles  north 
of  Madras,  were  years  of  blessed  seed¬ 
sowing.  The  work  was  almost  wholly 
among  the  Madigas,  one  of  the  aboriginal 
tribes  of  southern  India.  Leather  workers 
by  trade,  their  very  occupation  is  abhorrent 
to  the  high  caste  people  who  would  never 
kill  a  living  thing.  Poor,  despised,  igno¬ 
rant,  they  were  coming  in  increasing  num¬ 
bers.  Mrs.  Clough  gathered  children  into 
her  school  at  headquarters,  and  also  the 
men  and  women  of  zeal  who  must  learn 
to  read  their  Bibles  before  they  could 
teach  or  preach.  After  seven  years  of 
service,  in  1873,  they  went  to  America 
and  Mr.  Clough  collected  an  endowment 
of  $50,000  for  a  theological  seminary 

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among  the  Telugus,  which  has  done 
excellent  work.  Four  men  came  out  as 
reinforcements  to  the  mission. 

At  Ongole  there  was  steady  growth.  In 
1876  the  converts  numbered  3,269,  and 
this  increase  would  have  continued  at  a 
rate  sufficiently  rapid  for  the  resources  of 
the  mission,  but  the  famine  of  1876-78 
came  and  wrought  a  crisis.  It  ushered  in 
as  a  catastrophe  an  event  that  would 
otherwise  have  been  the  result  of  normal 
growth  —  ten  thousand  were  baptized  in 
one  year  and  an  overwhelming  responsi¬ 
bility  was  laid  on  the  missionaries. 

Seldom  in  modern  times  has  there  been  a 
famine  in  India  with  so  much  loss  of  life. 
It  lasted  nearly  three  years.  In  order  to 
provide  food  for  the  starving  in  his  district, 
Mr.  Clough  took  a  contract  from  the 
Indian  Government  for  digging  three 
miles  of  the  Buckingham  Canal,  planned 
to  extend  between  Madras  and  Bezwada, 


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about  250  miles.  He  had  a  village  of 
palm-leaf  huts  built,  and  wells  dug,  and  to 
this  camp  at  Razupalem  he  invited  all 
who  could  come  and  work.  There  were 
3,000  there  all  the  time,  many  coming 
and  going.  The  sick  were  brought  on 
litters ;  many  that  walked  from  villages 
afar  off,  grew  exhausted  and  lay  down  on 
the  road  to  die.  His  staff  of  preachers, 
thirty  in  number,  were  his  overseers.  Each 
was  responsible  for  a  company  of  one  hun¬ 
dred  diggers,  and  soon  became  acquainted 
with  them.  If  any  sat  down  for  a  short 
rest  the  preacher  joined  them,  and  heard 
of  the  scattered  families  and  those  who 
had  died.  The  fear  of  starvation  and 
cholera  was  in  the  hearts  of  all.  Never 
were  those  words,  “Come  unto  me  all  ye 
that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,”  and  others 
like  them,  more  in  place.  They  sank  into 
the  minds  of  the  listeners  not  only  as  balm, 
but  as  seed  for  a  future  fruitful  harvest. 


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While  the  famine  lasted  none  were  bap¬ 
tized.  Hundreds  came  but  were  told 
to  wait.  The  preachers,  going  about  on' 
their  fields,  saw  that  whole  villages  were 
ready.  They  were  a  remarkable  group 
of  men,  though  of  very  meagre  education. 
Some  had  the  gift  of  the  evangelist,  others 
were  pastors,  some  developed  ability  under 
stress  of  circumstances,  but  a  spirit  of  ser¬ 
vice  for  Christ  was  abroad  among  them 
and  carried  them  forward.  In  June,  1 878, 
Mr.  Clough  wrote  to  them  to  come  to 
Vellumpilly,  ten  miles  north  of  Ongole, 
that  they  might  reorganize  for  work,  but 
requested  them  to  leave  the  converts 
behind.  When  he  arrived  there,  how¬ 
ever,  he  found  a  multitude  waiting  for  him. 
He  mounted  a  wall  to  look  into  their 
faces  and  told  them  he  had  no  more 
money  to  give,  and  asked  them  to  go 
home.  They  cried,  “We  do  not  want 
help.  By  the  blisters  on  our  hands  we 


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can  prove  to  you  that  we  have  worked 
and  will  continue  to  work.  If  the  next 
crop  fail,  we  shall  die.  We  want  to  die 
as  Christians.  Baptize  us  therefore !” 
He  dared  not  refuse  longer  to  receive 
them  into  the  church  of  Christ. 

Inquiry  meetings  on  a  large  scale  were 
now  held  in  a  tamarind  grove  near  by. 
Each  preacher  gathered  the  converts  from 
his  special  field  together,  and  with  the 
heads  of  households  to  assist  him,  he  con¬ 
ducted  his  examination.  Searching  ques¬ 
tions  were  asked  and  many  were  sent  away. 
On  the  first  day,  July  2,  1878,  a  beginning 
was  made,  614  were  baptized  ;  on  the  next 
day  2,222  followed;  on  the  third  day 
there  were  700  more,  making  3,536  in 
three  days.  The  multitude  gathered  on 
the  bank  of  the  Gundlacumma  River,  where 
the  water  at  this  season  of  the  year  was 
fairly  deep.  The  six  ordained  preachers 
took  turns,  two  officiating  at  a  time.  The 


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names  of  the  candidates  were  read ;  with¬ 
out  delay  and  without  confusion  one 
followed  the  other.  As  one  preacher  pro¬ 
nounced  the  formula  :  <c  I  baptize  thee  in 
the  name  of  the  Father,  the  Son,  and  the 
Holy  Ghost,”  the  other  preacher  had  a 
candidate  before  him  ready  to  speak  again 
those  words  and  to  baptize  him  likewise. 
And  thus  it  was  not  difficult  to  immerse 
2,222  in  one  day.  Mr.  Clough  did  not 
baptize  any  during  those  days.  He  stood 
on  a  bank  overlooking  the  scene,  helping 
and  directing.  Before  the  year  was  over, 
9,666  members  had  been  added  to  the 
Church  at  Ongole,  making  a  total  mem¬ 
bership  of  13,000. 

And  this  ingathering  continued.  The 
Madiga  community  was  shaken  to  the 
foundations ;  the  old  gods  were  forsaken 
and  evil  customs  put  aside.  In  every  case 
the  individual  had  to  give  an  account  of 
his  faith  in  Christ,  but  after  that  the 


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gregarious  character  of  a  tribal  movement 
had  ■  its  effect.  Families  came;  villages 
came.  In  1883  Dr.  Clough  had  a  mem¬ 
bership  of  21,000  in  his  mission,  and  the 
nominal  adherents  counted  from  four  to 
five  times  that  number.  The  movement 
extended  over  7,000  square  miles  and  the 
country  became  dotted  with  hundreds  of 
Madiga  Christian  hamlets.  It  was  a 
question  what  to  do  with  this  great  field. 
Dr.  Clough  might  have  continued  at  the 
head,  keeping  his  great  flock  together, 
with  Ongole  as  headquarters,  and  men 
working  under  his  direction.  But  this 
method  did  not  insure  the  stability  of 
the  work.  Moreover,  an  organization  of 
this  kind  would  have  been  un-baptistic, 
resembling  a  bishopric.  The  four  taluks, 
small  counties,  lying  farthest  from  Ongole, 
were  made  separate  mission  fields  under 
new  missionaries.  Dr.  Clough  kept  five 
taluks,  or  counties. 


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T en  years  of  hard  work  passed.  Again  the 
proportions  were  unwieldly.  Again'  the 
Christians  in  his  field  numbered  20,000 
and  more.  Thus  far  Dr.  Clough’s  physi¬ 
cal  endurance  had  kept  pace  with  the 
heavy  responsibilities  of  the  work.  Now 
he  was  breaking  down  under  his  load. 
There  were  those  who  had  grave  fears  lest 
the  work  should  come  to  naught  if  he  now 

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fell  at  his  post.  At  this  juncture  Dr. 
Henry  C.  Mabie,  previous  to  entering 
upon  his  work  as  Home  Secretary  of  the 
Missionary  Union,  came  to  Ongole  on  his 
tour  of  the  mission  fields,  and  persuaded 
the  missionary  of  Ongole  to  come  to  Amer¬ 
ica  and  enter  upon  a  campaign  to  find 
twenty-five  men  for  the  Telugus.  Dr. 
Clough  arrived  in  America  in  1890,  and 
did  not  rest  until  the  men  were  found.  He 
collected  $50,000  to  send  them  out,  build 
homes  for  them  and  establish  new  mission 
stations.  He  also  maintained  that  the 


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time  had  come  when  the  high  school  at 
Ongole  should  be  raised  to  the  grade  of 
a  college,  and  secured  an  endowment  of 
150,000  for  this  purpose.  In  1892  he 
returned  to  India.  A  re-adjustment  of 
the  work  was  taken  in  hand.  Dr.  Clough 
loved  his  people  when  he  gathered  them 
in  by  the  thousand,  but  perhaps  he  never 
loved  them  better  than  when  he  set  off 
portion  after  portion  of  his  great  field.  It 
was  not  easy  to  see  them  go.  When  he 
passed  his  beloved  Kanigiri  Taluk,  with 
4,000  Christians  and  a  staff  of  preachers 
who  were  his  choice  fellow-workers,  over 
to  a  younger  man  he  said  to  him,  before  a 
large  congregation,  u  I  give  you  the  apple 
of  my  eye.  Take  care  of  that  field.” 
The  territory  of  7,000  square  miles  which 
once  he  called  his  field  is  now  superin¬ 
tended  from  nine  mission  stations,  with  a 
total  membership  of  50,000  and  many 
times  that  number  of  adherents. 


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With  little  more  than  the  taluk  in  which 
Ongole  is  situated  left  to  him  he  began 
another  term  of  service.  In  1893  Mrs. 
Clough,  who  had  been  sojourning  in 
America,  died  as  a  result  of  a  distressing 
accident.  She  was  greatly  beloved  among 
the  Telugus  and  left  two  sons  and  three 
daughters.  Two  of  the  latter  married 
missionaries  and  are  at  work  in  Ongole 
and  Madras.  In  1894  Dr.  Clough  mar¬ 
ried  Miss  Emma  Rauschenbusch  who  had 
previously  been  a  worker  in  the  mission. 
Famines  have  of  late  visited  India,  and 
twice  he  took  contracts  under  the  govern¬ 
ment  to  furnish  relief  for  the  thousands 
of  the  starving  ones.  Nor  have  the  in¬ 
gatherings  ceased.  The  Church  at  Ongole, 
the  mother  of  so  many  stations,  counts  to¬ 
day  19,421  members.  In  January,  1901, 
Dr.  Clough  baptized  more  than  1,500  men 
and  women,  and  many  more  were  waiting 
for  the  ordinance  out  in  the  villages. 


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A  SKETCH  OF  JOHN  E  .  CLOUGH 


While  in  the  midst  of  this  ingathering,  in 
camp  twenty  miles  from  home,  he  fell  and 
broke  his  thigh.  For  weeks  he  lay  at 
death’s  door  and  when  finally  he  was  com¬ 
pelled  to  start  on  his  journey  to  America 
on  a  stretcher,  the  native  Christians  began 
to  come  to  Ongole  in  order  to  see  him 
once  more.  Word  was  sent  not  to  come, 
but  if  they  loved  him  to  stay  away.  About 
2,000  came,  nevertheless.  It  took  three 
missionaries  to  manage  the  crowd.  They 
promised  to  be  silent  if  he  could  be 
brought  on  the  verandah  to  say  salaam 
to  them.  They  kept  their  promise,  and 
when  later  he  was  carried  to  the  railway 
station  on  his  cot,  they  took  off  their  san¬ 
dals  and  followed  silently  through  the  still, 
starlit  night.  They  and  he  are  waiting 
and  praying  for  the  day  when  he  will  have 
recovered  and  can  return  to  them. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY  PARAGRAPH  TG  U3L 

In  1901  Dr.  Clough  suffered  a  seve] 
tour  in  South  India  and  returned  t< 
strength  under  careful  medical  tre? 
health,  hut  unwilling  to  he  separa1 
turned  to  them  in  1902.  In  1906,  : 
retired  from  active  service,  hut  r< 
1910,  when  he  came  hack  to  America 
suffering  until  his  death,  which  o< 
Rochester,  Hew  York,  November  23,  ! 


3TITH  SKETCH  0?  DR.  CLOUGH 

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enaccident  while  on  an  evangelistic 
^cunerica,  hoping  to  recover  his 
;2aent.  He  never  regained  vigorous 
,11  from  his  beloved  Telugus,  re- 
Irced  by  increasing  weakness,  he 
ained  in  India  until  the  spring  of 
bearing  his  heavy  burden  of 
[urred  at  the  Graham  Sanatorium  in 


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